Answer (1 of 26): Edward Tufte's "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information"[1] is my #1 recommendation to anyone starting in UI design. It teaches you how to think of your visual design as an input to the perceptual system and as a tool to supp...

Local searchers and local businesses will see a fairly substantially different Place Page the next time they're poking around Google Maps/Places. The company announced a new look Thursday and promises more changes to come. The new layout of Place Pag...

Both Google and Bing have added many social search features over the past year. There's also been talk about using "social signals" to help rank regular search results. But are either of the major search engines actually using those social signals to...

In January, Google promised that it would take action against content farms that were gaining top listings with "shallow" or "low-quality" content. Now the company is delivering, announcing a change to its ranking algorithm designed take out such mat...